good notices: "[Smith’s] words open up onto haunting and darkly grotesque psychic landscapes unreachable by more pedestrian dramatic entertainments, [ranging] in feeling from the experimental flash fictions of Donald Barthelme to the early schizophrenic-styled writing of Peter Handke." Collaborations with Reggie Watts Smith premiered three original pieces – Disinformation, Transition and Dutch A/V – at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival with long-time friend and comedian/musician Reggie Watts. A fourth piece performed almost entirely in the dark, Radioplay, opened at PS122. A recording of Transition at On the Boards helped launch the first-ever live performance download website, OTBTV. While Smith halted actively collaborating with Watts after the singer failed to credit Smtih for co-writing of the lyrics of viral hits “Fuck Shit Stack” and “What About Blowjobs?”, their pieces played to acclaim and sold-out houses at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), ICA (Boston), Ars Nova (New York), among other venues. Awards For work as a playwright in the New York theatre scene, Smith was awarded the PONY Fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center. Smith's collaborations with Watts earned the MAP Fund Award and Creative Capital Award. The New York Times also credited Smith for helping to establish the Indie Rock Musical genre by writing the book for the Williamstown Theatre Festival musical Caravan Man. References American dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Gig Harbor, Washington